Where are You, my Brothers? is a 2003 album of Russian-language songs from World War II recorded by baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky and conductor Constantine Orbelian for Delos Productions. The album was released in Russia as Songs of the War Years (Песни военных лет). It was based on a concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. A video of the concert and 13 of the songs was released on the American VAI label. The repertoire of the concert is the very core of the Russian war song genre and the sound and video releases were accompanied by booklet essays and sung texts and translations.San Francisco Symphony playbill - Page 94 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - 2006 ""Somewhere Far Away," as Maya Pritsker tells us in her notes for Where Are You. My Brothers? — the recording of these songs by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. with Constantine Orbelian conducting the Moscow Chamber Orchestra"
A follow-up concert on Red Square followed. The next year, 2005, Hvorostovsky took the programme on an official tour through Russia at the personal invitation of President Vladimir Putin.В 2005 ГОДУ ДМИТРИЙ ХВОРОСТОВСКИЙ ПРОВЁЛ ГАСТРОЛЬНЫЙ ТУР ПО РОССИИ С ПЕСНЯМИ ВОЕННЫХ ЛЕТ В ЧЕСТЬ 60-ЛЕТИЯ ПОБЕДЫ. In Russian Hvorostovsky's tour repertoire also included songs not released on the CD including by Dmitri Shostakovich.
In Russia the album is known as Песни военных лет ("Pesni voennykh let").
Track listing
DVD Russian Songs from the War Years Soldiers Are Coming (K. Molchanov M. L’vovsky) Dark is the Night (N. Bogoslovsky V. Agatov) Unexpected Waltz (M. Fradkin Ye. Dolmatovsky) The Roads (A. Novikov L. Oshanin) On a Nameless Hill (V. Basner M. Matusovsky) Somewhere Far Away (M. Tariverdiev R. Rozhdestvensky) Katyusha (M. Blanter M. Isakovsky) The Hills of Manchuria (I. Shatrov A. Mashistov) The Sacred Stone (M. Matusovsky A. Zharov) The Lonely Accordion (B. Mokrousov M. Isakovsky) Cranes (Ya. Frenkel R. Gamzatov) The Last Battle (M. Nozhkin) My Moscow (I. Dunaevsky M. Lisiansky, S. Agaranian) Concert Recorded at the State Kremlin Palace, Moscow on April 8, 2003. VAI.
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